An area adjacent to Cockburn railway station, strewn with rabbits that have died from lack of water. Cockburn is on the border of South Australia and New South Wales on the road to Broken Hill..

Prior to the introduction of myxomatosis in 1950 the rabbit population in Australia could only be controlled by hunting, trapping or by poison. Rabbits developed a resistance to myxomatosis and their population again rose enormously. In 1991 rabbit calicivirus was introduced as a biological control; this however is not as effective as myxomatosis.

Western Australia built a rabbit proof fence in the early 20th century to try and keep the rabbits from spreading to the west. The fence proved unsuccessful.